Motivation – The drive that gets you to the gym and keeps you strong through the workout. Are you passionate, disinterested, burned out?

Physical strength – the amount of weight and reps maintains your current strength. Do you need to change for different results?

Mental Satisfaction – Are you happy with physical, mental, emotional results you are gaining from exercising?

Diet – Are your eating habits helping or hindering your progress?

For me personally, this summer I have felt really burned out with my routine and therefore unmotivated to workout. I attempted to push harder and make myself go to the gym, but that left me even more frustrated. As a result, my mentality became more negative due to the extra load of stress I carried around with me.

So I decided I just had to take time off. Let my body and mind rest. At first, this was REALLY hard to deal with. Not do any physical exercise for a week? Does a hike count? Yikes. When the week was over I was so anxious to get back into the gym! Then fashion week hit. Obviously with that schedule and editing at night meant working out could not be a priority.

Vegan meals in the morning, protein, carb, and greens for lunch, carb/fruit snack, protein and veggies for dinner

Finding the sweet nature of fruit instead of always reaching for a cookie

You’ve heard my story. Care to share yours? Email me your means of focus and goals and I’ll post them (anonymously or with a link to your blog) so we can learn new ways to refresh our routine that have proven to be successful.

*Red Carpet is providing juice and meals for free. I am in no way obligated to write about my experience. But what would be the fun in not sharing it with you?Plus, I want to see how it compares to BluePrint and Organic Avenue, my two favorite NYC juice and smoothie resources.